Indeed, we do a pretty good job of selecting gifts for close friends and significant others people we are more likely to "get" and have some good reason for choosing the items we buy, notes Joel Waldfogel, an economist at the University of Minnesota.

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For starters, according to an NFL spokeswoman, teams sometimes keep some of those pink items and auction them off to benefit charities of their own choosing, including Komen.

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